Yesterday I attended Kevin Closson's Exadata technical deep dive webcast series part 4. It is now available to download here. In there he talks about DBFS which is a filesystem on top of the Oracle database which can store normal files like text files. DBFS is provided with Exadata and is used to store staging files for the ETL/ELT process. This looks very promising, he sites several tests he conducted and gives performance numbers too. Watch the webcast if you haven't yet.

To read the entire article at its source, please refer to DBFS